rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2006-05-20 07:08 pm

woah

Walking down the street in my pseudo gentleman's wear of another era, a scruffy guy about my age couldn't stop staring at me. Not in a lustful way, and not hateful either, just sort of... frenzied, I guess you would call it -- like he'd been searching for UFO's all his life, saw me and realized I was little green men. I kept walking faster, scooting around people so he'd stop looking at me. Finally, as I fail at this at a curb, he says to me, "I know what you are." As the light changes, and I try to disappear into the farmer's market this happens two more times.

I'm so many things that people have the need to name out like a curse I have no idea what of those he could be on about.

So I give up, and I stop and I look at him, and say, "And what a nice change of pace it is, but now will you shut your goddamn mouth?"

The fucked up part? It worked.

[identity profile] rdc-referent.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Scruffy and frenzied earlyish in the morning by where - Union Square? For some reason I just think "drugged".

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Not early in the morning, just now, like 5pm at Union Square.

[identity profile] rdc-referent.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Ah - I thought the Farmers' Market closed before then.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
No, as long as it's daylight, it's there.

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
But what exactly? Bizarro! You should have poked him in the eye with the wand.

[identity profile] crazycatlady.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Your icon is gorgeous. I love garnets.

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, all credit should go to Kythryne at Wearable Sculpture. She found some cool faceted pieces.

[identity profile] 00goddess.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I think that's pretty awesome.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I was bemused. And apropo to nothing, I picked up that danactive stuff.

[identity profile] 00goddess.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
I hope it works for you. It's awesome for me.

[identity profile] delchi.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
He probably thought you were a time traveler.

Mmm farmers market.

[identity profile] labellerose.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
That was my first thought, as well. Spirit from another time, body stuck in the third millenium.

[identity profile] delchi.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds liek the making of some good fiction, there. Though I saw a movie trailer near similar to this recently ... .but still set in the current era. Like 2 ppl who are a few years appart.

[identity profile] iterum.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
...gosh.

[identity profile] roadnotes.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The universe is full of people like that, unfortunately.

"I'm so many things that people have the need to name out like a curse I have no idea what of those he could be on about."

For what it's worth, every once in a while, it's a naming out like a blessing, or a reification of something other people hope exists.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2006-05-21 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I mean, whatever this was, at least it probably wasn't Jew drama.